Description

A volume of meeting minutes of the Joint Intelligence Sub-Committee (JIC). The JIC was formed of representatives from the intelligence services, the armed services, and the Foreign Office. Its purpose was to assess military, security, and foreign policy requirements and coordinate Britain's intelligence organisations accordingly. The JIC members discussed a vast range of international and domestic issues in their meetings. In this file, subjects documented include the military capabilities and worldwide intentions of the Soviet Union and its allies; the need for more Slavonic linguists in the intelligence services; changes and efficiency savings in British intelligence; Soviet penetration of and anti-British subversion in the Middle East; information sharing and collaboration between British and American intelligence services; access to captured German documents; the recruitment of German military personnel and scientists by the Soviet Union; the leakage of technical information to the Soviets; and illegal Jewish immigration into Palestine.